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SubjectRe: 2.6.12 hangs on boot
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On Saturday 25 June 2005 02:20, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, 22 Jun 2005, Alexander Y. Fomichev wrote:
> > I've been trying to switch from 2.6.12-rc3 to 2.6.12 on Dual EM64T 2.8
> > GHz [ MoBo: Intel E7520, intel 82801 ]
> > but kernel hangs on boot right after records:
> >
> > Booting processor 2/1 rip 6000 rsp ffff8100023dbf58
> > Initializing CPU#2
>
> Hmm.. Since you seem to be a git user, maybe you could try the git
> "bisect" thing to help narrow down exactly where this happened (and help
> test that thing too ;).

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Ok, as i can see [and as Andi guessed
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4792]
issue have been introduced by new TSC sync algorithm
git id: dda50e716dc9451f40eebfb2902c260e4f62cf34.

And, yes, seems like it depends of timings...
In my case kludge with insertion of low delay (e.g. printk) between
cpu_set/mb and tsc_sync_wait() makes kernel bootable.

diff -urN b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c
--- b/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c 2005-07-17 21:55:55.000000000 +0400
+++ a/arch/x86_64/kernel/smpboot.c 2005-07-17 21:57:56.000000000 +0400
@@ -451,6 +451,7 @@
cpu_set(smp_processor_id(), cpu_online_map);
mb();

+ printk(KERN_INFO "We're still here!\n");
/* Wait for TSC sync to not schedule things before.
We still process interrupts, which could see an inconsistent
time in that window unfortunately. */
--
Best regards.
Alexander Y. Fomichev <gluk@php4.ru>
Public PGP key: http://sysadminday.org.ru/gluk.asc
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